When I walked outside my front door this morning I was greeted with about 2 feet of leaves. We live on a corner where they seem to socialize, have a few drinks, and then reproduce more leaves in rapid succession! So, as not to look like Sanford and Son (anyone remember that awful show? Anyone?) I grabbed a broom and started "city raking" them up.
Of course once I got started I just couldn't stop! So I scooped up the leaves from my neighbor's front door and sidewalk. Then I ventured around the corner and scooped up my other neighbor's avalanche of leaves. She opened the front door while I was doing this... We don't know each other well, but we know that we are neighbors versus strangers breaking into our respective homes. This level of recognition is pretty deep in my Dutch neighborhood! Not everyone is on this friendly status!
So she opens the door and I say hello. She asks what I am doing. I tell her that once I got started at my place I just couldn't stop. She asks me if I intend for her to pay me for this. I kind of thought she was making a joke (the Dutch have a very dry sense of humor, so one can really never be sure...) so I replied that she probably couldn't afford my fee. She closed the door in my face.
Ooops.
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